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American Hollow
1/20/2001 - 2/25/2002
The Norton Museum of Art opens a new exhibition entitled
American Hollow on January 20, 2001. This exhibition is organized in
conjunction with Rory Kennedy's documentary film American Hollow,
and is comprised of 60 silver-gelatin prints by award-winning
photographer Steve Lehman, which form the principal content of the
exhibition.
These powerful photographs present a life-affirming exploration of
the lives, hopes and dreams of a unique and distinctly American
family, the Bowling clan. The hills of Appalachia are the stuff of
legend, and the area populated by the Bowlings proves no exception.
The photos, which record this unchanging landscape with detachment
and without inflection, focus on the inhabitants of the hollow, in a
series of soberly composed, rigorously framed portraits of daily
life that are remarkable for their feeling and, in spite of evident
sympathy, reserve. Taken together, they capture the tension between
new and old worlds. Covering the better part of a century taken from
different vantage points, they will lend rare depth and texture to
the story of an American family.
Traditional bluegrass music mirrors the depth and richness of oral
and visual Appalachian traditions, and will be featured in the
exhibition along with three quilts made by Iree Bowling. During the
run of the exhibition there will also be regularly scheduled
screenings of the film American Hollow, the 90-minute documentary
about the Bowling family and Appalachia, directed and produced by
Rory Kennedy for HBO.
This visually rich exhibition examines issues of the rural life in
Appalachia that take place in a microcosm largely untouched by the
rapidly developing world around them. Above all, American Hollow is
that rare experience: a sympathetic and strength-giving portrait of
love and kinship in the face of hard times.
American Hollow is co-organized by the Norton Museum of Art and
Umbrage Editions. The local presentation of this exhibition is
generously funded in part through a grant from the Chastain
Foundation, American Hollow Press Release Norton Museum of Art Page
2 of 2 with national support provided by the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.
Foundation, Sidney Kimmel and the M.L. Ward Foundation.
Additional venues include the Dayton Art Institute; the Chesapeake
Arts Center, Baltimore; the University of Kentucky Arts Museum; the
Southeast College Museum, Cumberland, Kentucky and the Capitol
Rotunda, Washington, D.C.
A hardcover catalogue of 128 pages with over 100 photographs in
black and white, with an introduction by Ms. Kennedy, a preface by
Robert Coles, text interviews by Mark Bailey and photographs by
Steve Lehman accompanies the exhibition. The catalogue will be
available in the Norton Museum of Art Store at a cost of $35.00
(Member price is $31.50).
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